Are we any different as it often feels like Steve Parish uses Palace as a PR vehicle

I can't say I've ever noticed Sheikh Mansour courting the media (as he's famous in his own right) and Roman Abramovich seems to positively shun publicity. Parish on the other hand appears to be a media whore...

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

I can't say I've ever noticed Sheikh Mansour courting the media (as he's famous in his own right) and Roman Abramovich seems to positively shun publicity. Parish on the other hand appears to be a media whore...

One can go through the rest of the PL teams and one hardly hears or sees any of their owners/chairmen.Parish is often in the media and appears to revel in the limelight but one can argue that it is good publicity for the club and keeps us prominent in the public domain.

One can go through the rest of the PL teams and one hardly hears or sees any of their owners/chairmen.Parish is often in the media and appears to revel in the limelight but one can argue that it is good publicity for the club and keeps us prominent in the public domain.

With most of the other teams it's the manager who does the talking on behalf of the club and not the Chairman.

After all who do you want to listen to from Liverpool about their progress in the European Cup - Jurgen Klopp the manager or Billy Stubbins the chairman.

We have a very well known manager but his public utterances tend to be along the lines of "I don't know who we are looking at buying"

Incidentally I have no idea who the chairman of Liverpool is and couldn't be bothered to look it up

I can't say I've ever noticed Sheikh Mansour courting the media (as he's famous in his own right) and Roman Abramovich seems to positively shun publicity. Parish on the other hand appears to be a media whore...

To quote you Maple 'I smell pee' massive fan base my ass & I supply their NYCMCFC supporters club. I remember them along with Spurs, Sporting Lisbon & NY Red Bulls playing in a four match tournament, they barely had 150/200 fans at Red Bull Arena. Spurs had some where in the region of 10X as many easily 2500/3000.

Well, that's definitive then.

In truth before their recent success average attendances have tended to be around 40,000, but dropped below 30,000 during their dark days.

But they could muster a heck of a lot more during periods of excitement. So a fair bit bigger than us, but not as big as Man Utd.

To quote you Maple 'I smell pee' massive fan base my ass & I supply their NYCMCFC supporters club. I remember them along with Spurs, Sporting Lisbon & NY Red Bulls playing in a four match tournament, they barely had 150/200 fans at Red Bull Arena. Spurs had some where in the region of 10X as many easily 2500/3000.

FYI, when I said 'I smell wee' it was because I thought that the p*ss was being taken, not bullsh*t which would have elicited 'I smell poo'.

The attitude toward this depends on how long you potentially have to live or still care.

I'm quite keen on some rather rapid success. It's taken the club over 100 years to achieve a 5 year stay in the top league. How much longer do you want to wait for some glory?

Glory hunters? Why would you not want to see a 50k stadium full of supporters?How many of the spectators v Burnley in '79 were regular fans? That was one of the best Selhurst Park nights ever.

Football is different now. If you want to compete then you have to accept the landscape for what it is.

And the Blackburn game 10 years later, oh the excitement.

When we first got to the FA Cup Final, the whole of Croydon and the surrounding area woke up. Wouldn't it be nice to make our area like Newcastle, where it's the entire community pulling together.

On the other hand, I do find too many foreign 'customers' kills the atmosphere. We just need to 'aculturate' them, that's all. Everyone has a bit of sarf lundun in them, we just need to draw out that inner self.